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(Continued front last, week) in and out But her eyes were stesAy
said a lovely increasing intensity
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Grace wasted no Words. was told. and ie needed some one with good
Temple Barholm did not know, common gesso to stop alto la time to
England or "English methods. Hitt make him think straight 'before he
Idea—perhaps a mistaken one—vraa' did anythiag silly," she *aid.
that an English duke ought bo be deme ee say to him," T. Tembarom made
to advise him. He came to me,and ties matter clear; "'Say, you've left
suede a clean breast of it. He goes something behind that belongs to you.
stnaigist at things, that young fellow. Come back and get meant Lady
Slakes what he calls a 'bee line.' Ohl Jon. And I says, 'Good Lord, man,
I've been in it—I've been hi it, I as- you're acting like a fellow in a play.
dure you." That place doesn't belong to me. It
It was is they crossed the hall belongs to you. • Pf lt was mine, fair
that his Grace slightly laughed. and square, Little Willie'd "hang on
"It struck me as a sort, of wild- eo it • Thete'd be no noble sacrifice
goose Chase at first. He had only th Yoe get a brace on."
a ghost of a clue—.a mere resembl- "When they were talking in that
ance to a- portrait. But be believed silly way about you, aad sassing you'd
in it, and he had an inetinct." He run away," said Little Ann, her face
laughed again. "The dullest and uplifted adoringly as she talked, "I
most unmelodramatic neighborhood' said to father, 'If he's gone he's gone
in England has been taking part 'fl: to get something. And he'll be like-
& melodramia=but there has been nO ly 'to bring it back.'"
ire it—only a matter-of-fact He almnst dropped her hands and
young man, working out a queer thing ; eaught her th him then. But he sav-
bis own queer, matter-of-fact ed himself in time.
way." k "Now this great change bas come,"
When the door closed behind them, be said, "everything will be different.
Ternbalrom went to Lady Joan. She The men you'll know will lo* like
had risen and was standing before the pictures in the advertisements
the window, her back to the room. at the backs of magazines—those
She looked tall and straight and ten- fellows with chine and smooth hair.
sely bnaced when she turned round, I shall look like a chauffeur among
but there WPS endurance, not fierce- them."
ness in her eyes. But she did not blench in the least,
"Did he leave the country knowing though she remembered whose words
I was here waiting?" she asked. Her he was quoting. The intense and
voice was low and fatigued. She had lovely femininity in her eyes only in -
remembered that years had passed, creased. She came closer to him and
and that it was perhaps after all only so because of his height had to look
buman that long anguish should bit up more.
things out, and dull a hopeless man's "You will always make jokes—but
'memory. - I don't care. I dont care for any-
• "No," answered Tembarom sharp- thing but you," she said. "I love
ly. "He didn't. You weren't in it your jokes; I love everything about
then. He believed you'd married that you: love your eyes—and yeur voice
Duke of Merthshire fellow. This is —and your laugh. I love your very
the way it was: Let me tell it to clothes." Her voice quivered as her
you quick. A letter that had been dimples did. "These last months
wandering. round came to him the
night before the cive-in, when they
thought ho W AS killed. It told him
Tem i '2 Barholm was dead. He
started opt before daylight, and you
can bet he was strung up till he was
near crazy with excitement. He be-
lieved that if he was in England with
plenty of money he could track down
that cardshap lie. Ile believed you'd
help him. Somewhere, while he was
travelling h2 came across an old pa-
per with a !ot of dope about your
being engaged."
Joan remembered well how her
another had worked te set the story
afloat—how they had pone through
the most awful of their scenes—al-
most raving at each other shut up
together in the boudoir in Hill Street.
"That's all he remembers, except
inat he thought some one had hit
Nim a crack on the head. Nothing
bad hit him. He'd had too much to
stand up under and something gave
way in his brain. He doesn't know
what happened after that. He'd wake
up sometimes just enough to know
he was wandering about trying to
get home. It's been the limit th try
to track him. If he'd not came to
himself we could never have have
been quite sure. That's why I stuck
at it. But he did come to himself.
All of a sudden. Sir Ormsby will
tell you that's what nearly always
keppens. They wake up all of a sud-
den. It's all right; it's all right. I
ueed th promise him it would be—
when I wasn't sure that I wasn't ly-
ing." And for the first time he broke
Into the friendly grin—but it was
more valiant than spontaneous. He
wanted her to know that it was 'all
-right."
"Oh!" she cried, "ohl you—"
She stopped because the door was
ispening.
"It's Jem," he said sharply. "Ann
• let's go." And that instant Little
Ann was near him.
"No, No, don't go," cried Lady
Joan.
Jem Temple Barholm came ia
through the doorway. Life and
sound and breath stopped for a sec-
ond, and then the two whirled into
each other's arms as if a storm had
swept them there.
"Jeml" she wailed. "Oh, Jem! My
mann 'Where have you been?"
"Pre been in hell, Joan—in hell!"
• he answered, choking—"and this
wenderful fellow has dragged me out
of it."
But Tembarom would have none of
it He could not stand it. This
sort of thing filled gp his throat and
put him at an overwhelming disad-
vantage. He just laid a hand on Jens.
Tesinple Barholm's shoulder and gave
--hies an awkwardly friendly push. '
"Say, cut me out of it!" he ;mid.
"You get busy," his voice rather
isrealdag. "You've got a lot to say
to her. It was up to in,e befocre;—
now, it'e up to you."
ti f It as if I should die
ve mes e
of loving you." Jem Temple Barholm laughed out -
It was'a wonderful thing—wonder- right at the gleam in 'his eyes.
ful. His eyes—his whole young be- , "No, I shouldn't care a hallo', dear
ing had kindled as he looked down 1 fellow. And the fact that I objected
drinking in every word.
would not stop the story."
"Is that the kind of quiet little "No, it wouldn't, by gee! Say, I'll
thing you are?" ke said. get Ann to help me and we'll send it
"Yes, it is," she .answered firmly. to the man who took my place on
"And you're satiefied—you know, the Earth. It'll mean board and
Who it is I want?— You're ready boots to him for a month if he works
to do what you said you would that it right. And it'll be doing a good
last night at Mrs. Bowse's?" turn to Galton, too. I shall be glad
to see old Galton when I go back."
"You are quite sure you want to
go back?" inquired Jem. A certain
glow of feeling was always in his
eyes where turned them on T. Tem-
barom.
"Go back! I should smile! Of
course I Shall go back. I've got to
get busy for Hutchinson and I've got ,
to get busy for myself. I guess
there'll be work to do that'll take me
half over the world; but I'm going
back first. Ann's going with me."
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return to New York when the Sunday
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that smtwe rightly eiseoteraged
might dini into being equal to
ad demands. Wire and there antitz-
ceedlagly fresh and clean "moot
store," lrrillient with the highly color-
ed /*ben &detrain tinned soups and
numbs and edibles in glees iare, al-
luringly (presented iteelf to the pis -
ser -by. The elevated railroad finch -
ed upon iron supports, and with iron
stairwers so t,an that they looked
almost, pedlous, was a prominent fea-
ture of the landscape. • There were
stretches of waste ground, and high
backgrounds of bits of country and
woonland to be seen. The rush of
New Yorictrafilc had net yet reach-
ed the streets, and the avenue was
of an agieeable suburban cleanliness
and Vain People who lived in upper
'stories could pride themselves on
having "views of the river." These
they laid stress upon when it was
hinted that they "lived a long way
uptown."
The St. Francesca was built of light
brown stone and decorated with much
ornate moulding. It was fourteen -
stories high, and was supplied with
ornamental fire -escapes It was "no
slouch of a building." Everything
decorative which could b. done 1r it
under the title of "Living or Dead." had been done. The t -ns ranee was
its it almost imposing, and a generous lay-
mong especialpublic . was a
success of such a nature as betrayed ishness in the way of , !tient moviac
its author into as hastily writing a, flooring andd new and thick red car -
second romance, Which not being pet struck the eye at once. The grill
• rendered stimulating by a foundation work of the elevator was of fresh,
of fact failed to repeat his triumph. bright blackness, picked out with gold
T. Tembarom, reading in the library and the colored elevator boy wore a
at Temple Barholm the first news- blue livery with brass buttons. Per -
papers sent from New York, smiled sons of limited means who were will -
widely. - ling to discard trhe ex ei temente of
"You see they've got to say some- "downtown" got a good ,1eal for their
thing, Jem," he explained. "It's ton money, and frequently found them -
big a scoop to be passed over. Seine- selves •seoretly sunprised ,,nd uplifted
thing's got to be turned in. And it by the atmosphere of luxury which
means money to the fellows, too. It's greeted them when they entered their
good copy." red -carpeted hall. It ,t...s wonderful, said, her soft,cosy laug'h breaking
Bowse's boarding-house could be re- "Yes,—I am," murmured Littler
"Sulapose," suggested Jem, watch- 'they said, congratulatin., one another out. "Look Let's begin ok around this room and see
what we've got to do. alized to its fullest. No one in the Ann.
ing him with interest, "you were to privately, how much eonifort and
e.,
this ilLagainst his shoukler, fist
.be glad to get them."i. S't. roomed partment were other than MrFrancesca apartments knew that But softly he had had a busy day, ant
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write the facts yourself and pass style you got in a NYork apart-
nuteDid you get the groe- when he looked down at her, she bung
the young honey-mooners in the fire-
. .
them on to some decent chap who'd ment house after you passed the eric's?
his packages triumphantly. and Mrs. T. Ternbarom, as recorded . asleep.
"Glad!" Tembarom flushed with Ona certain afternoon T. Tem- ,
•
Tea, coffee, sugar, pepper„salt, oinneethe Htuabtclehtinsoofn names .inantdhe emnitsrs-
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"150ths." He sprang up and began to go over
delight. "Any chap would be 'way barom, with his hat on tt,, back of his "
up in the air at the chance. It's the head, and his arms fill! of parcels, beefsteak," he called out.
best kind of stuff. Wouldn't you 'ha-ving leaped off the "I." when it
sh::Ws:'iidc,asno'tb,hdayv,e"ibfeewfestckgooinftgent,c," Alicia knew, and Jem Ttemple Bar -
holm, and Lady Joan. The Duke of
mind? Are you sure you wouldn't." stopped at the nearest ., ,tion, darted Stone knew, and thought the old-
TTe was the warhorse snuffing battle up and down the iron s'ii., ways until do it on fifteen a week." fashionedness of the idea quite the
from afarhe reached the ground, ami then hur- , "Good Lord, no!" he gave back to last touch of modernity.
her, hilariously. "But this is a Fifth
Did you see any one who knew you
Avenue feed." when you were out?" Little Ann
"Let's take them into the kitchen asked
and put them into the cupboard, and
"No, and if I had they wouldn't
untie the pots and inans." She was 1have believed they'd seen me, because ' („-,:ioii--
suddenly quite absorbed and business- 1 the papers told them that Mr. and
like. "We must make the room tidy Mrs. Temple Barholm are spending 2607
and tack down the carpet, and then their honeymoon tmotoring through ,
cook the dinner." —
Spain in their ninety-horse-ipower
"Not you!" ike said. "You couldn't
be! You've melted mesa. Let's see."
And be slid his parcels down on SOO
cot sad ,Sfoted her up in the sir es if
sho bald ,been a belt,. "How ean
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toff, anAlow?" :tutted out. "You
denweigh end when a
fellow weft.* you s got to look
oat what We"
ile did not sent to "leek met" par-
ticularly whets be esagitt her to b*
in a Vic into *rhicb who 'wooed
charmingly to melt. She 1114410 ildre
self part of it, with soft aro* which
went at once round his nook and bold
'ay▪ !" he broke forth 101411 e set
her down. "Do you *ink I'm not
glad to get back?"
'"No, I don't, Tem," eh. answered,
"I know how glad you are by the way
I'm giad myself."
"You know just everything!" .he
ejaculated, looking ber over, "just
every darned thing—God bless you!
But don't you melt away, will you?
That's what TM afraid of. 111 do any
old thing on moth if you will just
stay."
That was his great joke, --though
she knew it w•as not so great a joke
as it seemed, --that he would not be-
lieve that she was real, and believed
that she •might disappear at any mo-
ment. They had beee married three
weeks, and ehe still knew when she
saw him pause to look at her that he
would suddenly seize and hold her
fast, trying to laugh, iometimes not
with entire euccess.
"Do you know how long it was?
Do you know how far away that bag
place was from everything ii the
world?" he had said once. "And me
holding on and gritting my teeth?
And not a soul to open my mouth to!
The old duke was the only one wiho me to eve you out of it." ,
underetood anyhow. Re'd been "That's nonsense," she answered,
there." with a eweet, untruthful little fare.
Ill stay,' she answered now, "I shouldn't be very sentible if I
standing before him as he sat down wasn't glad you couldn't lose your and let her try it. I've just got be
on the end of the "couch." She put job. Father and I are yeur now." show 'her New York."
a firm, warm -palmed little hand on He laughed aloud. This was the "Yes, let us keep it," said Little/
each side of his face, and held it be- innocent, fantastic truth of it. They Ann, drowsily, "just for a nest."
tween them as she looked deep into had chosen to do this thing—to spend There was another silence, and tine
his eyes. "You look at me, Tem— their honeymoon in this particular lights on the river far below AM
d " way, and •there was no reason -why twinkled or blazed as they drifted *
they should not. Her little dream andd fro.
which had been of such unattainable "Yu are there, ain't yon?" sail
proportions in the days of Mrs. Tembarom, in a half whisper.
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in her Vrettieet care and the Plat I eits***atbstl, they glowed and blazed'
house with ita huge terrace and the i agsinst MINN Of buildings, and they
griffins. hung it enerttous beiglsts in and -air
"Ain't she a looker?" Tembarom here and there, agnismandelnelhOut min
esaid of Lady' Joan. "And ain't Jens !opposite Interntingess Inas the glow
a looker, too? Gee! they're a pair. and dusk ot *hair brilliancy of light,
Jem thinks this honeymoon stunt of with the distant bes imee of s nearing
our is the beet tiring he ever heard elevated train, at intorwati rifilwar
of ---us fixing ourselves up here just deepening into is, 74141r -',*112r_
like we would bave done if nothing looked miles %low tliem, end waft
had ever happened, and we'd had te evil* sparks. pr blase of Wit Went
do it on fifteen per. Say," throwing slowly or esseetly so aid fro, ,
an arm about her, "are yougetting"Ws like et dream," said Little
as much fun out of it as if we had Ann, a long silence. "And We
afbestesi
to, as if I might lose my job any are up kere ' birds in a not.
..
minute, and we might get fired out He gave tier closer grip.
of here because we couldn't pay the "Mise Alicia o said that swim.
rent? I believe you'd rather like to 1 was almost down and out," be sail*
think I !might ring you into some Sort "It give the a jolt. She said a
a trouble so that you could help like this would be like a nest. •
ever we go,—and have to go tse
lots of places and live in lots of dint
ferent ways,--swe'll keep ibis plesse, •
and some time we'll bring ter haw
"I believe it now," he said, "but I
shan't in fifteen minutes."
"We're both right -down silly," she
"What do you think?" she said In
her clear little voice.
He caught her then in a strong,
hearty, young, joyous clutch.
"You come th me, Little Ann. You
come right th rne" be said.
CHAPTER XL
Many an honest penny was turned
with the assistance of the romantic
Temple Barholm case, by writers of
raragraphs for newspapers publish-
ed in the United States. It was not
merely a romance which belonged th
England but was excitingly linked to marriage of Mr. Temple Temple Bar-
-A merica by the fact that its hero 'holm and 'Miss Hutchinson, only child
regarded himself as an American, and and heiress of Mr. Joseph Hutehin-
',ad passed through all the picture- I son, the celebrated inventor. From a
seue episodes of a most desirably newspaper point of view, the wed -
struggling youth is the very streets ding had been unfairly quiet, and it
of New York itself, and had "worked was necessary to fill space with a
1 -is way up to the proud zosition revival of the renowned story, with
of society reporter "on" a huge Sun- tpiotures of bride and bridegroom, and
day paper. It was generally consid- of Temple Barholm surrounded by an-
ered redound largely th his credit cestral oaks. A thriving business
that refusing "in spite of all tempta- would have been done by the report -
tions to belong th other nations," he era if an ocean greyhound had land -
had been born in Brooklyn, that Inc ed the pair at the dock some morning
had worn ragged clothes and Awes and snap -shots could have been taken
with holes in them, that he had black- as they crossed the gangway, and
ed other people's shoes, run errands, wearing apparel described. But hope
and sold newInapers the -e. If he of such fortune was avrept away by
had been a mere English young man, the closing paragraph, which stated
one recounting of his romance would that Mr. and Mrs. Temple Barholm
have disposed of him; but as 'he was would "spend the next two months in
presented to the newspaper public motoring through Italy and Spain in
every characteristic lent itselfto their 90 is p. Panhard."
elaboration. He was, in fact, flaring- It was T. Tembarom Who seat this
v anecdotal. As a newly elected
President who has made boots or
driven a canal -boat in his unconsid-
ered youth endears himself indescrib-
ably to both paragraph reader' and
paragraph purveyor so did T. Tem-
barom endear himself. For weeks,
he was a perennial fount. What
quite credible story cannot be relat-
ed of a hungry lad who is wildly
flung by chance into immense for-
tune and the laps of dukes, so to
speak? The feeblest imagination
must be stirred by the high color of
sudh an episode, and stimulated to
superb effort. Until the public had
become sated with reading anecdote*
depicting the extent of his early
'privations, arid dwelling on illustra-
tions which Presented lumber-yarrds
in which he had slept, and the fac-
ades of tumble-down etenements in
which Inc had iirst beheld the light of
day, elle was a modest source of in-
come. Any lumber -yard or any tene-
ment sufficiently dilapidated would
serve as a model; and the fact that
in the shifting Architectural life of
New York the actual original scenes
of the incidents lead been demolished lamps. It burns without odor, smoke
and built upon by new apartment- or noise—no pumping up, is simple,
houses, or new railroad stations, or clean, sae*. Burns 941' air and 5%
new funnies seventy-five stories comma kerosene (coal -oil).
high, was an unobstructing triviality.
Aceounts of his manner of conduct- The, trive-ntor, F- N. Joknson, 146
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'he nad supposedly bee, hidden, of to *end a lamp es 10 days' FREE trial
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were the joy of remote villages esti to explain kow you eau get elms money
howns. A thrifty ead young minor and withont ExPeriesse OT latoneY
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"It's not true," his letter added,
but what I'm going th do is nobody's
business but my wife's, and this will
suit people just as well." And then
he confided to Galton the thing which
WAS the truth.
The St. Francesca apartment -house
Wf1.6 a very new one, situated on a
corner of an as yet sparsely built but
rapidly spreading avenue above the
100th Streets'—many numbers above
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ried across the avenue to the St. Fran-
cesca. He made long strides, and
ing of something highly iimusing; and
once or twice he began o ..vinstle and
checked himself. He ',-,ked t•approv-
ingly at the tall 7 a id -its sol-
idly balustraded entranc,-stops as he
approached it, and whne mitered
the red -carpeted hall he gave greet-
ing to a ,small !nu.atte i y n iv'ry.
"Hello, Tom! HOW.6
he inquired, hibriously. -You takir,g
good care of tais building? Let any
more eight-roen, P ?•I r :mien ? Von nt
got to 'keep rigtit ni the job, you
ktow. Can't hav y,u loafing bo
cause you have got those brass but-
tcns."
The small page showed hi, toeth,
in gleeful appreciation of their frond-
ly intimacy.
"Yassir. That's so," he answered.
"Mis' Barom she's waitin' for you.
Them carpets is come, sir. Tracy's
brought 'em 'bout an hour ago. I
told her I'd help her lay 'ern if she
wanted me to, but she said you was
comin' with the hammer an' tacks.
'T warn't that she thought I was too
little. It WAS jestthat there wasn't
no tacks. I tol' her jest call me in
any time to do anythin' she want
dore, an' she said sh•i would."
"She'll do it," said T. Tembarom.
"You just keep on tap.- I'm just
coming on you and light here," tak-
ing the elevator -boy as he stepped in-
to the elevator, "to look after her
when I'm out."
The elevator -boy grinned also, and
the elevator shot up the shaft, the
numbers of the floors passing almost
too rapidly to be distinguished. The
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He followed her and obeyed her
like an enraptured boy. The won-
der of her was that, despite its unar-
ranged air, the tiny ,place was already
cleared and set for action. She had
done it all before she had swept out
the undiscovered corners. Every-
thing was near the spot to which it
belonged. There was nothing to move
or drag out of the way.
"I got it all ready to put straight,"
she said, "but I wanted you to finish
it with me. It wouldn't have seemed fifteen per week," Inc said. "If we
right if I'd done it without you. It wanted flowers we should have to
wouldn't have been as much ours." grow them in old tomato cans."
Then came active service. She Little Ann took off her chorister's
was like a small general commanding gown apron and her kerchief, and
an army of one. They put things on patted and touched uip her hair. She
shelves; they hung things on hooks; was pink to 'her ears, and had several
they found places in which things be- new dimples; and when she sat down
longed; they set chairs and tables opposite him, as she had sat that first
straight; and then, after dusting and night at Mrs. Bowse's boarding-house
polishing them, set them at a more supper, Tembarom stared at her and
imposing angle; they unrolled the caught his ,breath.
little green carpet and tacked down "You are there?" he said, "aren't
its corners; and transformed the cot ,mx?,,
"Yes, I am," she answered.
what Tracy's knew as a "throw" and j
into a "couch" by covering it with
When they had cleared the table
adornirig one end of it with cotton -
and washed the dishes, and had left
stuffed cushions. They hung little the toy kitchen spick and span, the
photogravures on the walls and strung ten million lights in New York .were
up some curtains before the good- lighted and casting their glow above
sized window, which looked down the city. Tembarom sat down on the
from an enormous height at the top Adams chair before the window and
of four -storied houses, and took in
elevator was new and so was the boy, took Little Ann on his knee. She
beyond them the river and the shore
was of the build whichsettles cern-
and-ft was the pride of his soul to '
beyond. Because there was no fire -
land each passenger at his own par- fortably and with ease into soft curves
place Tembarom knocked up aShelf,
ticular floor, as if he had been pro- whose nearness is a caress. Looked
and, covering it with a scarf (from
relied u,pward from a catapult. But Tracy's), down at from the fourteenth storey
's), set usome inoffensiveorn-
he did not go too raaments on it and flanked them with
pidly for this of the St. Francesca apartments, the
passenger, at least though a paper lights strung themselves along lines
photographs of Jem Temple Barholm,
of streets, crossing and recrossing
parcel or so was dropped in the tran-
Lady Joan in court dress, Miss Alicia
sit and had to be pi.nced up when he
stooped at floor fourteen.
Pan -hard."
"Let's go and get dinner," said Lit-
tle Ann.
They went into the doll's -house
kitchen and cooked the dinner. Little
Ann broiled steak and fried potato
chips, and T. Tembarom produced a
wonderful custard pie he 'had bought
at a confectioner's. He set the table,
and put a bunch a yellow daisies in
the middle a it.
"We couldn't do it every day on
The red carpets were on the corri-
dor there also, and rresh paint and
paper were on the wa'11. A few yards
from the elevator lie stepped at a
door and opened it with a lateh-key,
beaming with inordinate delight.
The door opened intto a narrow Cor-
ridor leading into a small apartment,
the furniture of whioh vras not yet
set in order. A roll of carpet and
some mats stood in a corner, chairs
and tables with burlaips round their
legs waited here and 'here, a cot witla
a mattress on it, evidently to be trans-
formed into a "couch' held packages
of bafflingly irregif ar sbapes and
sizes. In the tiny kitchen new pots
and pans and kettles, some still wrap-
ped in paper, tilted themselves at
various angles om the gleaming new
range or On the closed lids of tke
doll -sized stationary vrash tubs.
Little Ann had been very busy, and
some of the things were unpacked.
She had been sweeping and mopping
floors and polishing up remote cor-
ners, and she had on a Mg white pia -
afore -apron with long sleeves w'hiels
transformed her into a sort of small
female chorister. She came into tbe
narrow corridor with a broom in bar
hand, her periwinkle -blue gaze as
thrilled as an excited child's whim it
attacks tke arrangement ofits first
doll's house. Her hair was a little
ruffed where it showed below the
White kerchief she /led tied over her
Itead. The warm, daisy Diabetes. of
her cheeks was amazing.
"Heine!" called out Tembarosn at
sight of her. "Are you there yet? I
don't believe it."
"Yes, Inn here," she -answered,
dimipiing at him.
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